Today happens to be the birthday of one of my all time favorite rebels. So, I thought I’d take us back in time and declare Lysander Spooner the rebel of this week in 1808.

Lysander Spooner was a nineteenth century American political philosopher, pamphleteer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and individualist anarchist. Spooner advocated what he called the “Science of Justice” which held that the initiation of coercion against an individual or their property was a natural crime, but so-called crimes that violated man-made statutes but had no victim were no crime at all.

Lysander Spooner would say the problem is market intervention, that the Post Office fails because it lacks market signals and market competition. Wozniak on the other hand says the problem is email. A cheaper and faster service exists, and rather than improving the Post Office, he proposes turning the Post Office into a parasite on the superior service.

After Iowa, Republican Party finally figures out the fit has hit the shan, wants desperately not to get "Perot'd" by Ron Paul and his supporters. In fact, there are hints Republican operatives actually _understand_ Paul and his supporters as NOT "kooks." The key comment: "Paul agrees with us 85 percent of the time," said the operative, "and his supporters are earnest conservatives and libertarians who have no reason to support Obama in 2012 unless they're stepped on by our team."

A judge has ruled that barking and hissing are not protected by the First Amendment. Mason, Ohio, Judge Andrew Batsche ruled Friday that when Ryan Stephens barked and hissed at a police dog in April, he was not protected by a constitutional right. Stephens was petitioning for the dismissal of a charge that he had abused a police dog, claiming the law violates free speech and is too vague.

Liberty Activist operating out of Orlando, Florida openly defy Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr. and Nullify his Administrative Order #2011-03, an order that infringes upon the Freedom of Speech and the Freedom of Association. On this day alone over 300 Fully Inform Jury leaflets were handed out. So there was no mistake about what our intentions were, we began our day at the very front of the court house line where Orange County Sheriff's Deputies were quick to attempt to run interference...

Chief U.S. District Judge Curtis L. Collier in East Tennessee blocked East Ridge from enforcing a ban on fortunetellers Oct. 8, hours after Candice Wohlfeil, a disabled grandmother who describes herself as a “spiritualist,” filed a lawsuit that says the ordinance violates her free-speech rights.